With the stroke of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pen, a new pay transparency law was passed on Tuesday.
The new legislation – Senate Bill 1162 – expands upon the framework of the Equal Pay Act, which requires employers in the state to disclose the pay range for a job if an applicant asks for it after an initial interview, as well as Senate Bill 973, in which private employers with 100 or more employees are required to submit a pay data report to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) that includes the number of employees by race, ethnicity and sex.
